Rashida Tlaib is among the first two Muslim women elected to Congress is US history.

The progressive Democrat is thedaughter of Palestinian immigrants and was also the first Muslim female member of Michigan’s state legislature.

Ilhan Omar joins Tlaib as one of the first two Muslim women in modern US history to be elected to Congress. She’s also the first Somali-American woman to achieve the same.

Ilhan Omar, a progressive Democrat who is also the first Somali-American woman elected to Congress, came to the US as a refugee.

She’s set to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

Tlaib and Omar campaigned together earlier this year.

Jared Polis is the first openly gay man to be elected as the governor of a US state.

Democratic Rep. Jared Polis on Tuesday night became the first openly gay man elected as the governor of a US state.

Polis, a Democrat, won the Colorado gubernatorial race against RepublicanWalker Stapleton.

He was not shy about his sexual orientation on the campaign trail whatsoever. “I think it really gives Colorado an opportunity to stick a thumb in the eye of Mike Pence, whose view of America is not as inclusive as where America is today,”Polis saidof his candidacy during a speech earlier this year.

Sharice Davids is the first Native American woman elected to Congress in US history.

Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, will be the first Native American woman to serve in Congress after winning a big victory in Kansas on Tuesday night.